Georgia’s Raffensperger Made a Deal with MTX Group Ignoring Competition and the Company’s Sketchy Short History

Georgia’s corrupt Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger made a deal with two firms reportedly avoiding any competing bids so he could hire these firms with very shady connections. Why would he do that?

TGP reported in late February that Georgia’s corrupt Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger unilaterally signed a contract for the state with two firms to run the state’s voter roll.

In a no-bid contract, Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced the outsourcing of Georgia’s Voter Registration System to Salesforce.com. The implementation is to be managed by the MTX Group. The new system is called the Georgia Registered Voter Information System (GRVIS).

TGP reported on Sunday night April 24th on Salesforce.com, the firm that Raffensperger is outsourcing Georgia’s voter registration system. This firm is run by a Board Trustee of the World Economic Forum, Marc Benioff who has a record of far-left actions.

However, despite all the concerns with Salesforce.com and Marc Benioff, MTX Group may be even more sketchy.

In June 2020, the New York Post reported on MTX Group:

The city has awarded an emergency no-bid contract to a controversial company for up to $46 million for new COVID-19 contact-tracing technology.

The Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications clinched the deal with the MTX Group, a growing start-up whose founder and CEO Dastigir “Das” Nobel boasts he wants to buy the Dallas Cowboys…

…MTX, which pays the well-connected law firm Greenberg Traurig for lobbying, has had some trouble in other states, including a cost overrun scandal in Kentucky. Nobel also faces allegations in federal court in New York that he failed to pay owed commissions.

Dallas recently awarded a 27-month, $295 million contract to MTX, which includes contract tracing personnel. That massive deal raised eyebrows because the firm beat out tech giants like IBM, AT&T and Accenture.

MTX Group claims to have employees but the numbers reported differ. Dun&Bradstreet shows the company has is 49 employees with $102 million in sales. On LinkedIn MTX Group claims to have 1,268 employees.

In 2021 the owners of MTX Group won recognition from Ernst&Young.

So how does a firm like this get such large contracts in GOP-led states? What really went on in these non-competitive bids?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/georgias-raffensperger-made-deal-mtx-group-ignoring-competition-companys-sketchy-short-history/

Broward County School Board Joins with Elections Supervisor to Launch Voter Registration Drive for 16-Year-Olds Who Are Ineligible to Vote

Broward County Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott launched his High School Voter Registration Drive this month.

With the help of Joe Scott, Broward County Supervisor of Elections, the Broward County School Board is seeking 16-18 High School students to register to vote.

Below is the pop-up going to every Broward County High School.

Here is one of the high schools.

The Broward County Elections twitter page is promoting the early registration for 16-year-olds. The 16-year-olds are not eligible to vote for two years.

Why not just sign them up when they’re 14 or 12?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/broward-county-school-board-joins-elections-supervisor-launch-voter-registration-drive-16-year-olds-ineligible-vote/

West turned to 'terror' against Russia – Putin

The Russian president outlined how the priorities of Western countries have changed over the last two months

Failed attempts to “destroy Russia from within” forced Ukraine and its Western “handlers” to turn to terror measures, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

Speaking at a meeting of the Prosecutor General’s Office Board, Putin outlined how, in his opinion, the priorities of Europe and the US in regard to Russia and its military operation in Ukraine had changed over the last few weeks.

First, he said, “high-ranking diplomats in Europe and the United States” were engaged in a “strange diplomacy,” urging their “Ukrainian satellites” to do everything possible “to win on the battlefield.”

Putin was apparently referring to a recent controversial statement by top EU diplomat Josep Borrell, who, following his visit to Kiev, said that “this war will be won on the battlefield.” During a conversation last week with European Council President Charles Michel, Putin pointed to the “irresponsible statements of the EU representatives about the need to resolve the situation in Ukraine by military means.”

In Putin’s opinion, the West has since changed its goal.

“… As they realise that this is impossible, they try to achieve a different objective instead – to split Russian society, to destroy Russia from within. But here, too, there is a hitch; this hasn’t worked either,” Putin said.

In his opinion, Russian society “has shown maturity, solidarity,” and supports its armed forces and the efforts “to ensure Russia’s ultimate security and help the people living of Donbass.”

After a ‘fiasco’ in the media field, Putin claimed, the West has turned “to terror, to arranging the murder of our journalists.”

He was referring to Monday’s announcement by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) that it had detained a group of “neo-Nazis” instructed by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) to kill popular Russian TV host and journalist Vladimir Solovyov. Kiev has denied any role in organizing the assassination attempt.

https://www.rt.com/news/554493-putin-west-plot-terror/

Blinken Declares Russian Operation Has "Failed" During Zelensky Meeting - Says US Diplomats Returning To Ukraine

During Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's unannounced trip to Kiev on Sunday (which had been revealed the day prior by Zelensky himself), where they met with the Ukrainian leader and hashed out details of new impending US weapons shipments, among the most significant announcements from Blinken is the planned return of American diplomats to the country.

All diplomatic staff had been pulled quickly upon the end of February Russian invasion, but European and US officials coming back to Ukraine even as fighting rages in the east is intended to underscore the Western assessment Moscow's military operation has "failed" - as Blinken stressed after his Zelensky meeting to reporters.

The US top diplomat asserted that ongoing Russian efforts to "subjugate Ukraine and take its independence" has "failed." He described that "Russia has sought as its principal aim to totally subjugate Ukraine to take away its sovereignty, to take away its independence – that has failed. It has sought to assert the power of its military and its economy, we of course are seeing just the opposite, a military that is dramatically underperforming and an economy … as a result of sanctions that is in shambles."

"We don’t know how the rest of this war will unfold, but we do know that a sovereign independent Ukraine will be around a lot longer than Vladimir Putin is on the scene," he added.

The gradual return of a US official presence will begin with the city of Lviv in the West - which has for the most part been sparred from major Russian bombardment. CNN reports:

As part of the resumed US diplomatic presence in Ukraine, diplomats will “start with day trips into the Lviv” and “will graduate to potentially other parts of the country and ultimately, to resume presence in Kyiv,” according to a senior State Department official.

Blinken told reporters following the meeting with President Zelensky, "This was, in our judgment, an important moment to be there, to have face-to-face conversations in detail."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blinken-declares-russian-operation-has-failed-during-zelensky-meeting-says-us

Arizona Judge Dismisses Lawsuits Aimed At Disqualifying Reps. Gosar, Biggs

The suits, which also took aim at state Rep. Mark Finchem, a Republican, failed because the U.S. Constitution does not provide for private action to enforce Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, Superior Court Judge Christopher Coury ruled.

The section, known as the Disqualification Clause, says that no person shall hold a federal office if they “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the government.

Two groups linked to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-described socialist, filed the complaints, claiming that Gosar, Biggs, and Finchem violated the clause because they “helped facilitate” the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.

But the clause clearly states that Congress is the body that has the power to enforce the section, a determination also outlined in one of the few cases that deal with it, Coury said.

“Congress has not created a civil private right of action to allow a citizen to enforce the Disqualification Clause by having a person declared to be ‘not qualified’ to hold public office,” the judge ruled.

Plaintiffs, expecting such a judgment, also argued that the ability of citizens to challenge candidates is created by a state law, but Coury also disagreed.

The law says that “Any elector may challenge a candidate for any reason relating to qualifications for the office sought as prescribed by law.”

“In sum, even assuming arguendo that the court were to accept plaintiffs’ argument that Arizona (and not just Congress) had the power to create a private right of action to enforce the Disqualification Clause, A.R.S. § 16-351(B) does not do this,” Coury said. “To expand the inquiry to include disqualifications—or who is proscribed from holding office—would re-write the applicable statute and create a cause of action and remedy in a statutorily-created body of law. This would be contrary to established precedent.”

The qualifications for members of Congress are exclusively determined by each chamber, as outlined in Article 1, Section 5 of the U.S. Constitution. The qualifications for officials in Arizona’s Executive Branch—Finchem is running to be secretary of state—are stated in the Arizona Constitution.

Coury dismissed the complaints.

“Today’s ruling is a win for the Constitution. The 14th Amendment allows the House of Representatives to determine eligibility to serve, not some left-wing, radical, special interest group,” Biggs said in a statement.

Challengers didn’t respond to a request for comment.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/arizona-judge-dismisses-lawsuits-aimed-disqualifying-reps-gosar-biggs

While Banning People for Facts, Twitter Openly Allows Threats of Murder Against The Establishment’s Political Rivals

Throughout the last two years, Twitter has purged countless voices in the name of preventing the spread of “misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.” World renowned doctors and scientific experts have found themselves wiped from the face of the platform for simply stating facts or predicting things that would eventually come true.

One of the people who has been censored the most is Robert W Malone MD, MS who is one of the inventors of mRNA & DNA vaccines. Dr. Malone has been outspoken about the way the establishment system handled, or rather mishandled, the covid crisis.

His Twitter account had grown to over a half million followers late last year before the platform decided that his alternative views on the pandemic were a danger to the narrative. So they banned him.

Instead of standing up for the free exchange of ideas by experts — which is how science works — the left cheered for Malone’s censorship, calling him a kook while celebrating the tools of tyrants.

Before Malone, Alex Berenson, a prominent skeptic of the government’s response to COVID-19, was unceremoniously banned from Twitter for a week. His crime? He cited Pfizer’s own clinical trial data.

“Blocked again, for a week this time,” Berenson said on his Substack. “For this tweet, which is completely accurate and does nothing but quote PFIZER’S OWN CLINICAL TRIAL DATA.”

The list goes on.

There seems to be a common theme among those who are banned and those who are not and it has quickly become obvious. If you toe the establishment line and repeat their narrative, you can bend and even break rules that would otherwise result in bans and censorship.

Just last week, after Washington Post columnist and technology reporter Taylor Lorenz wrapped up an anti-bullying campaign for online journalists — literally coming to tears over it and stating that it is not okay under any circumstances — Lorenz began a campaign of her own. Her target, the woman behind the page Libs of TikTok.

Though the establishment left claimed that Lorenz didn’t actually dox the owner of Libs of TikTok, the first revision of her article (archived in this link) on WaPo contained her actual private home address.

The publishing of private addresses like this is not only against Twitter’s terms of service but it also borders on illegal activity — especially if it is meant to drive intimidation, harassment, or stalking. This intent was unmistakable in the piece published in WaPo.

Nevertheless, their piece flourished on the platform and received widespread and viral distribution. But it gets worse.

After the article was published, calls for murdering the owner of Libs of TikTok began to gain traction on the platform. One tweet in particular, directly called for the assassination of Chaya Raichik and included a video of a person loading an AR-15, clearly establishing their intent.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/while-banning-people-for-facts-twitter-openly-allows-threats-of-murder-against-the-establishments-political-rivals/

Judge Finds Trump in Contempt in Legal fight with NY AG

A New York judge found former President Donald Trump in contempt of court Monday for failing to adequately respond to a subpoena issued by the state’s attorney general as part of a civil investigation into his business dealings.

Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay a fine of $10,000 per day.

“Mr. Trump, I know you take your business seriously, and I take mine seriously,” Engoron said before issuing the ruling from the bench in a Manhattan courtroom, following a hearing.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, had asked the court to hold Trump in contempt after he missed a March 31 court-imposed deadline to turn over documents. The judge said a contempt finding was appropriate because Trump and his lawyers’ hadn’t shown that they had conducted a proper search for the records sought by the subpoena.

Trump, a Republican, has been fighting James in court over her investigation, which he has called a politically motivated “witch hunt.”

James has been conducting a lengthy investigation into the Trump Organization, the former president’s family company, centering around what she has claimed is a pattern of misleading banks and tax authorities about the value of his properties.

The contempt finding by the judge came despite a spirited argument by Trump lawyer Alina Habba, who insisted repeatedly that she went to great lengths to comply with the subpoena, even traveling to Florida to ask Trump specifically whether he had in his possession any documents that would be responsive to the demand.

“The contempt motion is inappropriate and misleading,” she said. “He complied. … There are no more documents left to produce by President Trump.”

Trump spokespeople did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Investigators for James have said in court filings that they uncovered evidence that Trump may have misstated the value of assets like golf courses and skyscrapers on his financial statements for more than a decade.

A parallel criminal investigation is being conducted by the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, also a Democrat.

https://www.breitbart.com/news/judge-finds-trump-in-contempt-in-legal-fight-with-ny-ag/

French Presidential Election Poll: 85 Per Cent of Muslims Voted to Keep Macron in Power

Muslims in France voted overwhelmingly for Emmanuel Macron, with 85 per cent of Muslim ballots going towards keeping the French President in power.

85 per cent of votes from Muslims in France during Sunday’s general election went to keeping Emmanuel Macron in power, a poll seen by a French Catholic paper has found.

It stands in stark contrast with the incumbent’s overall vote tally, with the reelected president winning just over 58 per cent of total ballots.

According to a poll conducted on behalf of the Catholic La Croix magazine, around 85 per cent of Muslim voters gave their ballot to Emmanuel Macron as opposed to his populist rival Marine Le Pen.

The “very homogenous” voting pattern from the community is likely down to Le Pen’s hardline approach to radical Islamism, with the Rassemblement National candidate vowing to ban the wearing of the Islamic veil in public should she have reached the Élysée.

Most of these votes had been transferred from eliminated far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who himself received 69 per cent of the Muslim vote in the first round of the election earlier in the month.

While the “homogenous” description certainly fits the Muslim vote in France on Sunday, it must be noted that the vote was not as homogenous as it was in 2017.

During Emmanuel Macron’s first election for the presidency, he won an eye-watering 92 per cent of the Muslim vote, with this year’s result marking a 7 point decline in Muslim electoral support for the President.

In this aspect, the Muslim vote is all too similar to that of the general population in France, with Macron seeing around a seven-point drop over his 2017 result, likely a result of the fact that the last five years for Macron have been riddled with controversy.

Such frequent controversy was apparently not enough for the voters to put Le Pen in office though, and while the populist veteran did manage to achieve a record result for her faction of French politics, her efforts nevertheless have resulted in a loss that may see the French right once again wander the political desert for another five years at least.

One person who seems keen on avoiding this Mosesian fate however is right-wing pundit and former presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, who has appealed for the creation of a united populist front in the hopes of winning big in France’s upcoming general election.

However, those in Le Pen’s Rassemblement National camp have rejected the call, saying that there was little to no chance of an alliance with Zemmour or his associates at this stage.

“He has to deflate his head, which is huge, and stop insulting people,” said one senior RN member. “I think he should just be more modest, more humble.”

“I don’t see how we could make an alliance in good and due form with Reconquête today,” he went on to say.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/04/25/french-presidential-election-poll-85-per-cent-of-muslims-voted-to-keep-macron-in-power/

BLM Leader GOT CAUGHT ON CAMERA TELLING ALL THEIR SECRETS

https://youtu.be/pV0AZH8fgR0

Encrypted American Harris-Falcon Battlefield Comms System Falls Into Russian Hands In Ukraine

https://www.bitchute.com/video/b0P03XkrKNkn/